AN: I skip ahead in order to move on to the next book, the first chapter of the next children book would explain of what happened to Emily and to the others.

Emily's pov

The following couple of weeks that they were under attack half of the time by different monsters, thankfully they managed to defeat the monsters easier than it was since starting their journey. Emily was still unsure of what was happening with Gleeson, Nico, Arabella and Reyna, she wished she could hear something or show a sign of some kind from one of the gods if they were able to. Emily hoped that the small group of romans would be stopped before they could find the camp, even though Emily put protection around the camp that she was still unsure if it would hold. The monster attacks didn't help much, before she fell into Tartarus that she did have nightmares, the usual demigod dreams. She also has normal mortal nightmares of World War II and what happened during that time, with Bucky falling and Steve crashing into the ice. But her nightmares got worse in the last couple of weeks, for Tartarus was thrown into the mix of dreams and nightmares. Most of those nightmares was when she was in the heart of the Tartarus when Bob and Damasen sacrifice themselves so that Emily and the others could get out. Emily and the ones that were in Tartarus still hadn't told everyone else of what happened down there, she felt bad about that since Bucky tried to comfort her when she dreamed of Tartarus but he was unsure of how to do it since he wasn't there with her

But there was good news or somewhat good news in a sense, for the last couple of weeks that Emily managed to look healthy as well as Steve, Colonel Phillips, Percy and Annabeth. They also got news from from the Helicarrier that Dr. Erskine was getting much better his trip in Tartarus. After almost two weeks that they reached Athens of where this war will end, not only that but it was July 31st. Emily was standing at the railing looking at Athens, wondering what may happen now that they were here. So many things could happen, Emily remembered when she saw Elpis in Tartarus and the words she used when she spoke to Emily. It still didn't make sense to Emily of what Elpis meant by what she said. Soon they would be inside Athens to stop Gaea, Emily shivered slightly as the ship drew closer to the old city, just as she shivered that she felt a pair of arms wrapped themselves around her waist. Emily leaned back into Bucky, she knew it was Bucky for no one else would put their arms around her from the back, not only that but she could feel the cool metal from his one metal arm.

"Are you all right, Emily?" Emily wasn't sure if she was or not, memories of Tartarus were still fresh and the words of Elpis kept ringing in her mind as they drew closer to Athens.

"I felt better." Emily turned around to look at Bucky of who looked slightly worried and concern, she knows he been worried about her and their child since she came back from Tartarus. She was sure that he was more worried when she was down in Tartarus and pregnant no less, something she didn't plan. However, Emily was glad that he didn't question her of Tartarus and what happened down there, but she was sure that Bucky wants to know what happen down there. But it seems that he decided to wait till Emily felt she was ready to talk about what what happened down there. She was usurp if she would ever be ready. "It's just that this fight and war is something I never faced before, unlike in the Titan war of where I faced many of those monsters before. With everything that has happen so far, I am not sure if everything would be the same again." Bucky kissed her forehead and she put her arms around his neck as he did that.

"We will manage to defeat Gaea and her giants." Emily smiled when Bucky said that. A couple of hours later that Emily and the crew of the Argo II left the Argo II, when they entered Athens, that Percy and Jason looked towards the rest of the crew but it was Percy that spoke up.

"I am not sure what we will come across but it might be better if we all stay together." Before anyone could move that Emily noticed something at her feet, as she looked at it that she saw it was an orange flame and it started making a trail. Emily looked at the others of who were following Percy and Jason towards of where they were guessing of where the Giants were getting ready for tomorrow. Bucky seem to noticed Emily hadn't followed the rest of the crew and stopped, before looking back at her, when he spoke that the others stopped and looked back at them.

"Emily, is something wrong?" Emily looked down at the trail in front of her, it was clear that she was the only one who could see this trail in front of her. She looked up at Bucky.

"Yes. Look, there is something I need to do." Bucky walked over to her.

"I will come with you."

"Bucky, no." Bucky looked slightly hurt when she said that. Emily wanted Bucky to come along with her or even Steve or Lauren but she knows that she has to follow this trial by herself without anyone else. "Bucky, normally I would let you come with me." Emily looked back down at the trail in front before going on. "But this is something I must do by myself." She looked back at Bucky. "I have to do this alone if there is any hope to win this war and fight. If I don't do this and alone than we may fail this quest or have a bigger chance of failing at least." Bucky bit his lip.

"If you haven't come back by August second, I will go and find you." Emily nodded when Bucky said that, Emily followed the orange trail in the opposite direction.

Bucky's pov

Bucky watched Emily go, he was still unsure of what happened in Tartarus, but from the nightmares Emily had so far in the last couple of weeks, that he wasn't going to push her into telling him yet. For it was clear her memories of Tartarus were still too fresh in her mind it to talk about it quite yet, even to him. When he first saw her again that he kept feeling his heart break when he saw her because of how weak she seem. But in the last couple of weeks that she was becoming more herself but she was more determined than ever to stop this war. But a few times Bucky noticed it seem that Emily was close of breaking down in the last two weeks, in a similar way of when he was still the winter soldier and he wanted to cry out to the woman with the name of Flower princess and ask her to tell him of who he was. But there were a couple of times of when Emily would did break down, after Emily told him of what happen after he fell that Bucky knew Emily faced a lot as well as face a lot of pain and suffering because she had been unable to learn of what really happened to Lauren, Steve and Bucky till it was almost seventy years later. That the wounds she got in the war healed over that time when she accepted that offer from Hades.

Bucky was surprised that Emily didn't break down during those seventy years and she was close of breaking when she got out of Tartarus. He knows that Phil, Steve and Lauren noticed it to, but not once did Emily give up even if it seem she was so close of doing it. Bucky was worried about her, he always was ever since he first meet her when she was five and he always felt the need to look after Emily and Steve. He tried to find Emily and with Steve's help after Emily was adopted so long ago, he managed to figured she ran ways when he was twelve and Steve was ten. For the couple came back to the orphanage demanding Emily back, but when there was no trace of Emily that they left angry. Bucky was glad that Emily left and tried to find her on the streets but was unable to it, for it was like Emily vanished after that. She only reappeared after the war started, even if it was a few years after it started, when he saw her again that he was more protective over her as much as he could be. Even though he knows she could take care of herself with protection, but she was glad to have his back though.

Watching her go and knowing of where she was a couple of weeks ago that Bucky knows that Emily managed to make out of Tartarus partly because of her love for him for he managed to keep going it get to the door for the same reason. Even though Bucky felt he would lost a lot if Emily died, but he knew that she would lose a lot more if she didn't get through Tartarus and to get to the doors. Bucky didn't want to lose Emily again after Tartarus, but he could tell that whatever she has to do that she has to do it alone for he could tell it from her eyes. He has a feeling that one of the gods sent a quest to her to help with the fight of the Giants or showed her a sign of sign kind. Once Emily left to go wherever she needed to go to help with this war that the rest of the crew and Bucky went in the other direction. After a few minutes, that they entered of what Bucky figured was an old temple or one of the oldest temples there in Athens besides the main temple that everyone comes to look at. They walked in further till they reached a different room that looked like a throne room, it looked similar to the throne room on Olympus. Bucky and the others went into he middle of the room and nothing happened. When Bucky and the others were in the middle of the odd throne room that a male's voice spoke up

"At last you have come." Bucky and the others turned around to face the voice from the doorway. It was all the giants expect for Clytrius. The giant king stepped forward and looked at Jason. "So we meet again son of Jupiter, I have been waiting for this fight since I rose from the earth but alas that fight had to wait till now."

He held out a hand and a spear jumped up into his hand and that was when the fighting started, Lauren found alongside Bucky as they fought the giant that was the anti Hestia. Phil and Steve took on the anti Demeter while the others took on the giant that was the anti of their parent or which ever one they could fight. As they fought that Bucky noticed that the gods came and started fighting along with them, Hestia joined Lauren and Bucky in front the giant that was oppose her. Lauren managed to get the giant to his knee when Bucky stabbed it and Hestia sent fire to the giant making the giant turn into gold dust. Just when the three of them managed to that, when one of the giants was about ready to stab Percy when Annabeth got in the way and the Speer went through her stomach. One of the goddes yelled and started fighting the giant with Percy's and Poseidon's help, Bucky went on fighting with other monsters that came that were not Giants. As Bucky fight that an orange light of some seem to go into the sky and surrounded Mount Olympus, he thought he felt something enter him as the orange light fell upon the gods and demigods that were fighting the giants and monsters.

But he couldn't place of what that was but it felt familiar to him like he lived with this thing for his whole life but it was more noticeable. As a result that he was more determined this ever to win this war, so he could have a more normal life with Emily after this. Bucky hoped that the others are fine, soon enough only the giant king was left while all the other giants and monsters were destroyed or killed. Jason stabbed the giant king while Jason stabbed the giant that Zeus, or Jupiter, zapped the giant king with the master bolt and the giant king turned to gold dust. When the king fell that no one moved or said anything, Bucky looked around it was than that Bucky realized something for the first time. For he was too Bucky fighting to even noticed this before that moment when the fighting in the throne room stopped, Bucky realized that Emily wasn't in the throne room, he thought she would have come here by this point before the fighting ended. It seems the others noticed this too, not only that but they were checking the wounds the demigods gained as well as Annabeth. Bucky wanted to find Emily but he wanted to know if Annabeth was all right, after Apollo checked in Annabeth that he stood up before he spoke.

"I can't help her, Ans I can't change Annabeth's fate. She made the promise to protect Percy and she kept that promise with her final breath like the prophecy stated." Bucky stepped towards his patron God, hoping that Apollo will know what happened to Emily and where she is, before he spoke.

"What about Emily? Do you know where she is?" Apollo shook his head.

"I am not sure where she is when she went the other direction for I was unable to follow her. I was needed here, besides I tried to use my sight but I saw nothing." Apollo looked at Hades, Demeter and Hestia. "You three been watching her the closest, do you know where she is?" They spoke their heads and Hades spoke up.

"I am not sure where she is, I know what happen till a certain moment. After that I am not sure what happened. She went to the temple of Elpis, in there was the jar that Elpis was in. Emily managed to open it and allowed Elpis to leave. After that, things began to get fuzzy."

"Hades, what do you mean fuzzy?"

"Well, somehow Emily and Elpis bonded because of the curse Elpis was placed under by Nyx, I think but a blessing was placed upon her. More or less only one person would be able to free her and that one was Emily, apparently."

"Are you saying Emily is Elpis or that she is now a goddess of Hope or something like that?"

"Not exactly, she is still a demigod. I am not sure if I can explain about the bond in since it never happened before now. Elpis would be bonded to the one demigod till a certain event pass and when that event is passed that Elpis and the demigod would no longer be bonded. So Emily would still be a demigod while Elpis will still be a goddess. But I am not sure what that event is that breaks the bond but I think it might have happen already. I was able to see that she was fighting someone but I couldn't make it out of who it was that Emily was fighting but she seemed to know of who it was. The last thing I saw was that Emily was throw against the wall and the one she was fighting with went over to her ready to kill her. Than I could feel Elpis leaving Emily or that is what I assume happened, than Emily just disappeared." Lauren yelped and spoke.

"So she is dead?" Bucky felt that his heart was breaking in two but Hades shook his head.

"She is not dead, I am sure of that much for her spirit is not in the underworld. Emily just vanished without a trace."

Bucky didn't bother to stay behind to hear what else they were talking about, instead he left the throne room and went running towards of where he last seen Emily. When he reached that spot that he went towards of where he last saw her go, thankfully her footsteps were left behind clear as day. But than again it might been have something to do with that blessing Hestia gave to him when he went to join his unit in the war. Finally he reached the temples in Athens and went to the temple that Hades said Emily was last in, when Bucky entered the temple that he looked around. There was nothing in there expect for an altar, pictures of seasons, laughter and other things at nearly made Bucky smile. As Bucky looked around that he could see that there was no trace of her, as he looked around that he noticed a necklace on the floor. He walked over to the necklace and picked it up, he knew that this necklace didn't belong to Emily for it was in a silver string or something like that and there was a blue glowing crystal on the silver string. As soon as Bucky picked the necklace to looked at the necklace that the necklace shone brightly before it rose in the air and clasp itself around his neck.

When the necklace was around his neck that it dimmed back to to it's original glow before he picked it up from the floor. Bucky stared down at the necklace that was now around. It's neck, for some reason he necklace seems familiar to him like he seen it in a movie form somewhere before but he couldn't remember what movie or where he seen this necklace before. Bucky pulled at the necklace and tried to take the necklace from around his neck but the necklace refused to move from itself from around his neck, it was like as if he was bounded to the crystal or something. Suddenly the room around Bucky started to light up, a golden light, Bucky looked around as the golden light moved towards him and wrapped itself around him. As the light wrapped around Bucky that he blacked out. The last thing that entered his mind was that he hoped that he would not become the winter soldier again, unlike when he fell from the train in World War II and blacked out from that fall.